The Hon. Chamara Sampath Dasanayake
Chamara Sampath Dasanayake questioned the Deputy Minister’s statement that an executive officer had been appointed to SriLankan Airlines, stating that no Chief Executive Officer had yet been recruited. He said a previous applicant, a former CEO of Papua New Guinea Airlines, had been rejected without an interview, and that a second advertisement had since been published while the post remained vacant.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, my first supplementary question is this. Hon. Deputy Minister, you said an executive officer has been appointed, but in fact one has not yet been appointed. A newspaper advertisement has been published. Even the Chairman is not intervening at SriLankan Airlines; he is standing aside while this is being done.
¶ 02 For the post of Chief Executive Officer of SriLankan Airlines, a former CEO who worked at Papua New Guinea Airlines applied in response to the newspaper advertisement you placed first. However, he was rejected without even being called for an interview. Now another advertisement has been published to recruit a CEO. However, no CEO has been recruited so far. That is my first supplementary question. The Hon. Deputy Minister said someone has been appointed, but when I inquired from our union at the airline, they said a CEO has not yet been recruited.
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 3 February 2026 ·No. 23252 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Chamara Sampath Dasanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 3 February 2026. No. 23252. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/8702